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It was Disability Awareness Day at Fenway Park and an autistic man was singing the national anthem. Everything was going fine, until he suddenly started to struggle half-way through. It only took half a beat for the whole stadium to join in and help him through the rest. As one friend put it, “I’m convinced that if people were just bigger baseball fans there wouldn’t be nearly as much war, poverty or oppression.” I’m inclined to agree. Now if Boston could just win a game. . .

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That was really nice. Remember when the Trailblazers coach Mo Cheeks came over and helpeed that poor teenage girl who forgot the lyrics halfway through the national anthem? It was one of the most gracious things I ever saw:

Sounds like you’re not really paying attention to the actual games. They’re 4 games over .500 since their bad start, and only 3 back of the Yanks. Gonzales is on a tear, Crawford is finally starting to swing the bat, and the front end of the rotation has been really solid. The Sox are gonna be just fine.

@Rhayader
I agree. . . The final game in the home series against the twins was a great game to watch, and Crawford’s walk-off double to end it was beautiful. I hope they can hand the yankees a good drubbing.

I was at that game and, while I don’t remember the result of the game (it was a few years ago IIRC), I’ll always remember that anthem. It was really cool how several thousand people came up with the same solution to what was quickly becoming an uncomfortable moment.

Ted: GBA is still played during the 7th inning stretch on Sundays at Fenway, to my continuing irritation.

Has MLB gotten rid of “God Bless America” during the 7th inning stretch?

Ugh, yeah isn’t that awful? They don’t do it at every park, but they still do at some — Yankee Stadium, for instance. Corny beyond belief. I go to a ballgame to watch a ballgame, not to partake in patriotic fetishism.

Personally, I think professional sports fandom has a lot in common with patriotic fetishism

For no-neck cretins, perhaps. I happen to think baseball is a game of aesthetic beauty and strategic elegance. It’s fun to watch because of its unpredictability and flashes of brilliance, not because of mindless fanaticism.

I found this on the Agitator, posted by Kate Klonick, who’s one of Radley Balko’s guest bloggers whilst he’s flitting about the Balkans on vacation. She posted it on Saturday, hence her title of Your Saturday Sometimes-People-Dont-Suc…